Guest Commentary: Tuesday Stealth Hearing on Tolls for I-80
$10+ tolls – but Tahoe Groups go free! By Alan Hirsch Policies that will decide how high…
Guest Commentary: YoloTD Board Cuts Future Transit Funds by 60%
Is I-80 “Tolls for transit” argument just greenwashing? By Alan Hirsch At the January 9 2024 City…
Guest Commentary: Council Will Decide on I-80 Policy March 5
YoloTD cannot produce a financial forecast for $465m/project By Alan Hirsch On Tuesday, March 5 the Davis…
Guest Commentary: Caltrans Delays Sets Up I-80 Legal Crisis
No Public input & closed-door meetings for 2 years. By Alan Hirsch, Yolo Mobility I-80 Yolo was…
Guest Commentary: MLK’s Lesson on How Structural Change Can Happen Locally in Davis
By Alan Hirsch This year’s Davis city-sponsored Martin L. King celebration is on Peace Activism. It will…
Letter: Effectiveness, Social Justice & the Freeway Widening
By Social Justice Committee, Congregation Bet Haverim The Congregation Bet Haverim Social Justice Committee submits this letter…
Guest Commentary: I-80 Whistleblower – Caltrans Needs to Change for 21st Century
Is misappropriation of funds a standard practice? By Alan Hirsch, YoloMobility News of a high-level Caltrans whistleblower…
POLITICO Story: Whistleblower Terminated for Complaining about Environmental Impacts of Freeway Expansion Project
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – Local residents and the Davis City Council are…
Guest Commentary: I-80 News – Two Projects on Causeway; DEIR Release; Woodland – Traffic Congregation Not Relevant in EIR
By Alan Hirsch All the week’s News on I-80, as best I understand it. The Headlines. Draft…
Guest Commentary: Climate Science Wars Come to Davis
I-80 Elected Ignore UC Davis Studies By Alan Hirsch Will personal experience and intuition triumph over decades…
GUEST COMMENTARY: Confirmation Bias and City Council Culture
Can we learn anything from Davis History? By Alan Hirsch The Davis Council on 7/18 approved building…
Breaking: Yolo I-80 Widening Not Funded!
Advocates Who Steamrolled Project Scramble to Save It by Alan Hirsch The Yolo I-80 widening project was…
Guest Commentary: Caltrans Games System to Get Another ‘Environmental’ Award for Highway Widening
Why actually try to fight global warming and make a more sustainable future when you can just…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Reevaluating Whether We Should *Fix* Mace
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – In 2019, the year before the pandemic, the…
Council Set to Approve a Mace Blvd Redesign Plan
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Several years have passed with a pandemic in…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Mace Solution Represents a Good Balance, We’ll See the Result
By David M. Greenwald Everyday Injustice Davis, CA – The new proposed configuration for Mace seems like…
City Laid Out a Reconfigured Mace Blvd on Thursday; Now Goes to Council
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor At a community meeting on Thursday, the city presented a newly-configured…
Guest Commentary: DISC Traffic Problems and Associated Vehicular Emissions Will not Be Solved by the Proposed I-80 HOV Lane Expansion
Myths and Facts about Impacts of Freeway Lane Expansions on Traffic Congestion and Adoption Rates of Electric…
My View: We Need a Strategic Vision for Transportation Not More Band-Aids
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – I have been troubled by the approach to Mace Blvd….
Sunday Commentary: Mace Mess Not So Messy Right Now
When the issue of fixing the Mace Boulevard redesign finally went before the city council, they went…
